A study confirms that patients with stable coronary artery disease and a diagnosis of depression or anxiety face a higher risk for cardiac events. Medscape Medical News
A new analysis from the Northern Manhattan Study suggests that insulin resistance in nondiabetics is associated with an increase risk for stroke, independent of blood pressure or obesity. Medscape Medical News
A multicenter registry study using the Custom NX DES has again shown that the device is safe in long lesions and in a smaller group of patients receiving two stents delivered consecutively from a single 60-mm section. Randomized controlled trials are the next step, investigators say. Heartwire
Experts are quibbling over the heparin dose and definitions of bleeding used in the study, but investigators for the study insist that the results are meaningful, particularly in the US, where some clinicians are already substituting bivalirudin for heparin in troponin-negative patients undergoing elective PCI. Heartwire
Among older adults, low and high values predict higher risk for cardiovascular events, with noncompressible leg arteries predicting the risk for stroke and congestive heart failure specifically. Medscape Medical News
